Dallas Co., TX - Bios: Alfred King Lucas ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Robert Bennett USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Biographies Transcribed by Robert Bennett, 26 Mar 2005 Biography on page 548 in Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas Co., TX. (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1892, Alfred King Lucas (30 Jan 1848-15 Dec 1897) A. K. LUCAS, a farmer and dairyman of Dallas county, was born in Meigs County, Tennessee, on January 30,1848,the youngest of five children born to Thomas and Narcissa (Wammock) natives of Georgia and Virginia respectively. The father was a soldier of the war of 1812, and in an early day moved to Tennessee, where he pre-empted and improved a farm. In 1851 he immigrated to Ozark, Arkansas, and in 1853 to Dallas County, where he bought and improved a farm of 280. acres, paying $1.50 per acre. His death occurred in this county December 15, 1877, and the mother still survives, residing with our subject. The subject of this sketch was reared to farm life and educated in the public schools of Dallas county, and also aided in opening up the home farm. On his seventeenth birthday he enlisted in Colonel Warren B. Stone's regiment, and served until the close of the war. Politically, Mr. Lucas is a member of the Democratic party, but is not active in politics, and religiously both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Oak Lawn. He was married in this county, in 1873, to Alice Cole, a native of Texas, and daughter of James M. and Sarah (Bennett) Cole, natives of Tennessee. The parents came to Texas in 1843, settling in Dallas county, where the father died in 1883; the mother is still living in Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Lucas have five children, namely: Thomas M., James C., Narcissa Etta, Laura, and Alfred Warren.